Ronald Koeman

[Barcilliant]

Valverde bottled cl leads, ruined an invincible season and was a pushover for the veterans.
The eunuch of Spanish football and overall waste of time.

Exactly.

 

[malvolio]

EV is the worst coach every to come near this club, nay, worst ever to coach a team in spain. worse than gary freaking neville lmao

better than tata martino and setien. i would say he would have won the same as lucho, if he had lucho's squad.

 

[Messigician]

better than tata martino and setien. i would say he would have won the same as lucho, if he had lucho's squad.

Yeah I think so too

 

[Joan]

If Pep is an Ivy league professor, EV would be a HS substitute teacher.

Or he saw the shallowness of modern football, just like modern academia, and retreated into the woods.

Football's Grigori Perelman

Unlike that poser Pep

 

[Bobo32]

Valverde bottled cl leads, ruined an invincible season and was a pushover for the veterans.
The eunuch of Spanish football and overall waste of time.

Bottled CL leads in the quarter finals by mental collapse twice, gained 87/93 points in the league and won a cup as well.
He wasn't perfect, and not the man for Barcelona, just as Koeman isn't, but Koeman can only lose points in one of the remaining games to gain as many points as Valverde in his worst season, and still he went out of CL earlier than Valverde did.

I do not know how Koeman would be less pushovered by veterans than Valverde. He plays Pique, Roberto, Alba, Busquets, Griezmann any time he gets to. Pjanic is the only old player not treated very well by Koeman.

 

[Judoman]

Bottled CL leads in the quarter finals by mental collapse twice, gained 87/93 points in the league and won a cup as well.
He wasn't perfect, and not the man for Barcelona, just as Koeman isn't, but Koeman can only lose points in one of the remaining games to gain as many points as Valverde in his worst season, and still he went out of CL earlier than Valverde did.

I do not know how Koeman would be less pushovered by veterans than Valverde. He plays Pique, Roberto, Alba, Busquets, Griezmann any time he gets to. Pjanic is the only old player not treated very well by Koeman.

Compare Valverde team to current team before you compare their seasons. At least Valverde had a striker and a transfer budget.

 

[Bobo32]

Compare Valverde team to current team before you compare their seasons. At least Valverde had a striker and a transfer budget.

I prefer the squad of today to Valverdes squad.

 

[Judoman]

I prefer the squad of today to Valverdes squad.

Indeed.
How did ithe team look at the beginning of the season with disgruntled Messi and all the chaos in the boardroom? Was the team the same as it is now?

Personally i thought we were going to finish bellow 3rd place in la liga.

 

[BarcaOG]

Or he saw the shallowness of modern football, just like modern academia, and retreated into the woods.

Football's Grigori Perelman

Unlike that poser Pep

'poser' pep winning anything and everything wherever he goes

yeahhhh big poser. should be more like the serial winners cholo, mourinho, and pochetino

 

[Bobo32]

Indeed.
How did ithe team look at the beginning of the season with disgruntled Messi and all the chaos in the boardroom? Was the team the same as it is now?

Personally i thought we were going to finish bellow 3rd place in la liga.

It looked pretty shit while Koeman insisted on the 4-2-3-1 (although the first games looked "great" if you didn't look more closely and realized there was a lot of luck involved then)
I thought, and think, there is potential for a treble with these players, with at least close to 100p in the league.

I never demanded a treble though of course, but I think this "rebuilding" season has been very little about building for the future, and more about trying to squeeze results out of these players shortsightedly. Many systems has been tried and we do not know what system Koeman intends to play in the future, and I don't see any signs that he would improve the team in the long term. Maybe he could have similar results next year if he gets some of the players he wants and Messi stays, but I don't see his roof being very high and I am afraid he will take decisions that will be bad for the club long term.

 

[Horatio]

I thought, and think, there is potential for a treble with these players, with at least close to 100p in the league.

You thinking like that is a testament to the work Koeman has done lol. A bad coach wouldn't have moved the squad from where it was.

 

[Bobo32]

You thinking like that is a testament to the work Koeman has done lol. A bad coach wouldn't have moved the squad from where it was.

As I said, I thought so before this season, after the 2-8 and before Koeman arrived.
I don't think Koeman will bring the team towards those heights though.

 

[Total-Football]

As I said, I thought so before this season, after the 2-8 and before Koeman arrived.
I don't think Koeman will bring the team towards those heights though.

Lol

 

[soul24rage]

As I said, I thought so before this season, after the 2-8 and before Koeman arrived.
I don't think Koeman will bring the team towards those heights though.

Lol

 

[BarcaOG]

Lol